Re: problem with serial driver while opening the minicom

[Rahul Sundaram]

Deepak Madhusudan wrote:

>  Hi All,
>      I am writing a serial driver in FEDORA 3 (kernel-2.6.9). when i am 
>  trying open the the serial driver /dev/ttyX throuh my minicom 
>  application it is giving the following messages when i checked through 
>  the dmesg
>   
>
>  *minicom: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd1
>  *
>
>  * [<c0148f56>] __alloc_pages+0x28b/0x298
>  *
>
>  * [<c0148f7b>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x24
>  *
>
>  * [<c014c689>] kmem_getpages+0x15/0x94
>  *
>
>  * [<c014d415>] cache_grow+0x155/0x29a
>  *
>
>  * [<c014d767>] cache_alloc_refill+0x20d/0x23d
>  *
>
>  * [<c014dd18>] __kmalloc+0x6b/0x7d*
>
>  Though the following messages came the driver was able to work.
>
>  ** 
>
>  **
>
>  Then I installed the same fedora3(kernel-2.6.9) again in the other 
>  seperate partition and checked in this case.It als gave the above 
>  message but system got hanged. Can anybody help me in this problem. 
>  waiting for the reply.
>
>   
>  
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